MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
To celebrate the launch of the graduate program in Comparative Media Studies at MIT, this final event of the Media in Transition Project aims to establish a broad-gauged discussion of our emerging computer culture in the perspective of ancestor technologies and older media.
The time has come to take an inventory of today's game industry and envision tomorrow's technological innovations and creative implications.
Part of an ongoing series of events focused on creativity in the digital age, the MIT Conference on Digital Cinema brings together filmmakers, critics, and media industry leaders to explore the nature of digital cinema and its cultural significance.
Cyberspace has been represented as a race-blind environment, yet our everyday encounters with race have consequences--both "inside and outside the box."
How do we reconcile the competing forces of media convergence and media fragmentation that are shaping the current communications infrastructure?
A visual lecture and intensive hands-on workshop with Scott McCloud in the art of making comics. Strong emphasis will be given to developing clarity, storytelling skills and personal expression.
Cartoonist Scott McCloud discusses recent developments in comics and graphic novels and the recently accelerated evolution of comics on the Web.
Rediscover the magic and pep of this delightfully elastic medium. Work with award-winning animator and designer Pell Osborn.
Learn fansubbing--the process of adding subtitles to Japanese animation.
The third Media in Transition conference centers on television's political and cultural role at the dawn of our new millennium.
Henry Jenkins asks, does The Matrix phenomenon represent the future of entertainment?
A workshop hosted by Pell Osborn, participants' finished animations will screen at the Made-at-MIT Spectacular in May.
Japan's cell phone (or keitai) culture is the most developed in the world today, with new uses, marketing strategies, and social relationships increasingly transforming the ways people communicate and experience their own identity.
Between the Lines is the first event of its kind to be organized in the Boston/Cambridge area.
